Nowshera: One killed, three wounded in CNG blast

The gas cylinder was being filled when it exploded.

NOWSHERA: A man was killed and three others were injured when the gas cylinder of a car exploded at a filling station on GT Road.

Nowshera Kalan police official Mumtaz Khan said a huge explosion was heard at 10am in the vicinity of the police station. The police rushed to the site and found a CNG cylinder had exploded in a car.

The impact of the explosion destroyed the car and injured the three men who were sitting inside, including the son of the gas station owner. The official said the driver of a Suzuki van who had parked his vehicle next to the car was killed on the spot.

“According to a witness, there was an explosion after which the car’s cylinder flew out of the car and hit the van. A stock of CNG kits in the compressor room was also damaged in the explosion, which led to station’s wall being destroyed as well.” said Khan.

The body of the van driver Abdur Rasheed, a resident of Takht Bhai, was shifted to his hometown for burial. Both the damaged vehicles were impounded.

The injured Mehmood Ali Shah, Muhammad Ijaz and Azeem Gul were shifted to a hospital in Peshawar. Till last reports, Shah was in critical condition at the Lady Reading Hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 21^st, 2013.